Publishing a page

Publishing is the step that matters. A page in the tracker earns nothing until it is on your site.

WordPress: one click

Connect your site once, from the publishing step of setup or from the page editor. WordPress asks you to approve the tracker and hands back an application password. We store that encrypted and use it for every publish. It needs WordPress 5.6 or later on HTTPS.

If connecting fails, the message says which of four things happened:

• Not WordPress. The site does not answer as a WordPress install.
• REST blocked. It is WordPress, but a security plugin is blocking the connection. Allow the REST API for logged-in users, or ask whoever manages the plugin.
• No application passwords. The install is too old, or not on HTTPS.
• Unreachable. We could not load the site at all.

When you publish, the page goes up exactly as it reads in the editor. You can choose live, or a WordPress draft you finish in your own admin. Only a live page counts on the board; a WordPress draft does not.

If your WordPress user is an editor rather than an administrator, WordPress strips the page's schema. In that case the tracker hands the schema back for you to paste into your SEO plugin.

Everything else: copy

Squarespace, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, GoHighLevel and the rest do not offer a way in, so you copy the page. The editor copies it as rich text, which lands correctly in most page builders, and the schema copies separately as plain text.

Tell us where it lives

If you publish outside the one-click path, the tracker checks your site for the page's own address every day and records it when it finds it. If you gave it a different address, open the question and choose I already wrote this, then paste the link. From then on the weekly checks know which page to credit.

A page that redirects to a new address is followed automatically. A page you delete is noticed and any advice about it closes on its own.